Amanda Knox turns to move forward with the Merdit family Kercher
Amanda Knox reveals when she sees the way forward Medi KercherFamily after the wrong arrest for the murder of a former roommate.
During an exclusive interview with US Weekly about her memory FREE: My search for meaning, 37 -year -old Knox showed where she was with loved ones Kercher.
“Both of her parents passed. Her mother had a state of the heart, even then. I remember how one of the things told me, was that she was in very frequent contact with her mom because she had a state of heart, and had her health concern,” Knox reminded. “That’s why she eventually passed from this state – but then, her father died very tragically. Suddenly he walked around the neighborhood and got into the car.”
Knox acknowledged as Kercher’s family faced an even greater tragedy From the student’s deathAdding: “The rest of her family is her two brothers and sister. I have no idea what her brothers think about me. I know her sister spoke very publicly about her regret that Meredit was lost throughout this story.”
Kercher and Knox’s ways were crossed in 2007 when they lived abroad in Italy together. Later in the same year Knox was accused of killing Kerchar and sentenced to 26 years in prison Once she’s and then the guy Rafael Sollesit Both were convicted of crime despite lack of evidence.
Then the Court of Appeal acknowledged that the former couple was not guilty in 2011, but they were again found guilty after three years during the re -re -re -. Italian Supreme Court cleaned Kercher’s murder in 2015 and She was released.
Ivarian migrant Rudy Good He was sentenced in 2008 to 30 years for Kercher’s murder after his DNA was discovered at the crime scene. Later, his term was reduced and he was released from prison in November 2021.
“I say this in my book about how her death was intertwined with my personality. If, if -you hear what the news about her business is usually with a header that has my name in it,” Knox said Us About the consequences of a high -profile cause. “And I am in full agreement with them that it is unfair and wrong. So I feel that there is an opportunity for many common soils as well as many opportunities.”
Knox confessed She remained hoping About the fresh start with Kercher’s loved ones.
“I still very much hope to be able to visit the Merdite grave – but I do not want to do it without their blessing, because I understand that Meredit belongs to them at first,” she continued. “Although I have a special appearance with her – literally because her death is intertwined with my face – I really hesitate to talk to them very directly.”
The priority for Knox was the respect of Kercher and her family, saying, “You must be careful because who knows what injuries they can link to my identity that is not guilty is still very real for them. I told this because of the resonation and everything I would like to communicate with them.
The complex feelings of Knox about being thrown in the focus with her illegal conviction – and the process of trying to conclude peace with scandal – is the subject of her memories FREE: My search for meaning. The book, which is now, follows Knox since the day she was arrested to her present life as a mother of two and supporters of criminal justice reform.
Despite the back reaction for using your experience, to express the rights of incorrectly convicted, Knox is firm.
“What happened to Meditis, horribly and traumatically and completely real. In addition, what happened to me, horrific and traumatically and completely. Therefore, when I talk about my experience, I am only my property and I do not take it away,” Knox shared, shared Knox Us. “If anything, I’m trying to shed light on it because it is constantly filtered through my experience. So I am grateful that it can be confusing because the story you fed through your young life was that I am a villain, and so all I do, at the expense of Mredit is actually a lie.”
She continued: “I really try to empathize with this perspective because I write in my book that I have the fault of my own survivors. her when I will fight in my life.
FREE: My search for meaning now goes out and continue to scroll the references to Kercher Kerchar and how she used the memoirs to pay tribute:
Earn peace with the past

Knox has not returned to Italy for almost ten years After her unlawful conviction. In 2019, she returned to speak at the criminal justice festival, which allowed her to reconsider the house she shared with Kerchar.
“Mredite was an integral part of my life. But I think it was also because I had never been able to mourn it. As I quickly learned in freedom, many people thought I was not allowed to mourn the merid. The cases, we were inextricably linked with Merdit, and so I somehow was the other injustice I lived while she died. For these vocal critics, the only decent way was to disappear and calmly consider itself happy that remained alive. “
Knox confessed that “never wanted” “gravity” of Kercher’s memory, adding: “(this) one that is particularly inconvenient, given that I really didn’t know Merdit is all so good. murder. “
To the right with criticism

Despite the trip to Modena, which celebrated a new start, Knox called on the Kerher family lawyer, Francesco MareskaFor calling her return “inappropriate”. Knox called Maresk a “jerk” for the public statements he made about her, but she did not blame Kercher’s family.
“I do not blame Kercher for their lawyer. As in cases such as many vague families, they were told a comforting lie from the prosecution and their lawyers,” she wrote in her book. “It was very unpleasant to be accused again of the Kerher family injury, speaking of my unlawful conviction and tried to use his experience to draw attention to issues that affect tens of thousands of people.”
Try to get

John Kercher -Old, John Kerher -Young, Stephanie Kerher, Lale Kerher and Aril Kercher.
Mirrorpix/MegaIn his memoir Knox noted that it “was supposed to be an ally” with the Kerhters because they were “victims” of Hood and the Italian justice system. She found that she appealed to the Kerher family several times over the years through different channels.
“I reluctantly pushed more because I understand how painful the idea should be up to them, especially if they still think I have something related to the murder of Mredit,” she added. “But they understand it or not, we have always been on one side.”
Endorsement

Knox mentioned Kerchar at the end of her memoirs, writing: “Merdyitis (RIP), which I will never stop honoring, and her family, because I still hope we can share my grief once.”